The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Of all the errors which can possibly be committed to the education of youth, that of sending them to Europe is themost… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are now trusting to those who are against us in position and principle, to fashion to their own form the minds… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Having labored faithfully in establishing the right of self-government, we see in the rising generation, into whose hands it is passing, that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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